Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller went before reporters today and had important words to say about the report of his recently completed inve...

With the assent of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, the radical forced-birth, anti-woman right wing of the Republican Party has changed it...

Whatever virtues or flaws one might attribute to particular presidential aspirants, one characteristic that must be considered when selectin...

Those who assert that abortion is murder are hypocrites if they do not support severe penalties for women who have abortions. If I pay a c...

Donald Trump said yesterday that he doesn’t want war with Iran; he is only interested in keeping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Of cou...

My Great Decisions discussion group  got somewhat off track yesterday and entertained a long discussion on the merits of the Electoral Col...

A report on NPR this morning spoke of removing “unexploded ordnances” in Vietnam. This immediately sent me to dictionaries to check my unde...

In light of the many unarmed black males killed by police, a popular slogan has become BLACK LIVES MATTER. The angry right-wing white rea...

The pool of candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination is large and growing. This is a mixed blessing, and some of the cont...

What is wrong with the sentence below? Both accused each other. This is but one of the issues I deal with in a new essay on my Web sit...

While watching a Spring Training baseball game the other day, I saw a fielder practically trip over a chair used by a ball girl in foul terr...

A few days ago, I baked cookies from a recipe published by The New York Times , a kind of salty chocolate chip shortbread. I had originally ...

I had a rough morning, so I decided to have breakfast out. I went to Crouse Café, which serves only breakfast and lunch, and which does a pa...

If President Donald Trump did not have a problematic relationship with the Russian government and if he were a mentally healthy person of no...

Having read the extended report by the editorial board of The New York Times  titled “ A Woman’s Rights ,” I was distressed to read the sto...

The government shutdown caused by President Trump’s insistence that Congress appropriate nearly six billion dollars for his border wall cont...

I am not in the habit of making predictions regarding political events. Prognostication too easily leads to embarrassment. Nevertheless, tod...

For the past two years, Congress, under Republican control, refused to pass bills—in many cases, even refused to consider bills—that Preside...

Lyin’ Trump I listened to 1A  on NPR yesterday. The New York Times  reporters who investigated the source of Donald Trump’s wealth were ...

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